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The RTLM's role in the genocide earned it the nickname "Radio Machete" as it related to their incitement to genocide. [120] A 2014 study by Harvard Kennedy School researcher David Yanagizawa-Drott found that approximately 10% of the overall violence during the Rwandan genocide can be attributed to this new radio station. [ 121 ]
The militia used machetes and rifles to kill every person who tried to escape. [ 2 ] The massacre was part of the April–July 1994 Rwandan genocide in which up to 1,000,000 people died.
Machete Season (French: Une saison de machettes) is a book by Jean Hatzfeld published in 2003 by Éditions du Seuil. It was published in English by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with the translation from French by Linda Coverdale. The author reports testimonies of convicted killers of the Rwandan genocide.
(Reuters) - Following are some details about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 that killed more than 1 million people. Rwanda marked the 30th anniversary on Sunday. ... many butchered with machetes ...
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Rwanda genocide on April 7, 1994. A phoenix is rising from the ashes, writes Jonathan M. Hansen.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 ...
On about April 12, 1994, guns and grenades were distributed to Interahamwe militiamen and other armed civilians at Musha Church by members of the Rwandan Army. On about 13 April 1994, an attack was launched against the Tutsi civilians seeking refuge at the church. The attackers used guns, grenades, machetes, pangas and other traditional weapons ...
Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) (Kinyarwanda: Radiyo yigenga y'imisozi igihumbi), nicknamed "Radio Genocide" or "Hutu Power Radio", was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993, to July 31, 1994.